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Climate Change

There is no Planet B

Climate Change

Super Cities №272—Climate’s Collective Alliance

Collective action is only possible when members have determined that the benefits are greater than the costs.

Climate Change

Super Cities №264—Neutrality Simply is Not Enough

The future is not set, but our climate pathways are becoming clearer.

Climate Change

Super Cities №258—How Climate Change Leads to War

Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war.

Climate Change

Super Cities №254—When Bigger is Not Better

Did you know that, between 2010 and 2018, SUVs were the second largest contributor to the explosion in global carbon emissions?

Geopolitics

Super Cities №244—What To Learn From Kids

Adults use weasel words to impress, confuse, and obfuscate. We have an incredible ability to string together words that mean nothing at all. Kids know better.

Climate Change

Super Cities №240—How Population Trends

Of the nearly 9 billion people in the world, almost one-third live in China and India — two countries with the most polluted cities in the world.

Climate Change

Super Cities №237—When Texas Goes Boom

The Lone Star state will produce 10X the amount of oil and gas as Putin's Russia – and, to bring things closer to home, 4X more than Canada.

Climate Change

Super Cities №233—Why Germany is Breaking Its Golden Rule

According to Munich Re AG, insurable losses from fires, floods, and storms doubled last year. By its estimates, climate-related losses topped $140 billion in 2018. Climate costs will skyrocket in the coming decades as the world becomes insufferably hot, crowded, and urban.

Geopolitics

Super Cities №231—Why The World Is Thirsty

It is hard to imagine a more dystopian future than one where seventy-percent of the world lives in military-occupied cities with little food, no water, and burning temperatures.

Climate Change

Super Cities №227—The Language of Climate Change

A recent study defined three core responses to climate change — mitigation, adaptation, and resilience — and explored how city leaders in the UK use them.

Climate Change

Super Cities №226—Why Cities Are So Hot

Did you know that, on an average day, a city with one million people is about 5°F warmer than the surrounding area? When the sun goes down, that number jumps to 22°F.

Climate Change

Super Cities №215—When Climate Change Becomes Real

After forty years, the climate change community may finally have its opening.

Sustainability

Super Cities №197—Polluted Cities are Killers

By 2050, an additional 400-plus million Indians — and 255 million Chinese — will live in cities. Along with Nigeria, India and China will account for 35% of global urban growth by 2050.

Climate Change

Super Cities №124 - As The World Burns (Literally)

It is difficult for most people to connect the Industrial Revolution to current GDP and productivity growth to future climate-caused events.

Climate Change

Super Cities №103 - Why Cities Are The Future

Around the world: trillions of dollars, billions of people, and millions of products. The most significant economic opportunity of our lifetimes.

Cities

Super Cities №73 — Why Cities Are The New Nation-States

Nation-states defined the 20th century. Cities will define the 21st century.

Climate Change

Super Cities №59 — How To Signal Leadership

No regulation requires Stripe — a billion dollar technology startup in an extremely competitive market — to be carbon-neutral.

Climate Change

Super Cities №58 — Data Don’t Lie: The Enlightenment is Working

In the age of #fakenews, it is difficult to focus on ground truth. **But the world is unambiguously improving.**

Climate Change

Super Cities №35 — With Clean Energy, Follow The Money

With assets over $1 trillion, Norway will stop investing in international petroleum companies

Climate Change

Super Cities №11 — Leadership: The Climates They Are A-Changin’

In our world — the world of company-building — leadership means you cannot skip the hardest problems.

Climate Change

Super Cities №10 — Our Heroic (Global) Neighbors

Between 1990 and 2016, infant mortality rates decreased by 53%